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Postby Ian on Thu Jun 29, 2006 10:30 am

Like the subject says...

DW1640 BSRB - http://support.benq.com/files/storage/F ... 0/BSRB.zip

Update the wriitng strategy


DW1670 1.02 - http://support.benq.com/files/storage/F ... 70-102.zip

Update the writing strategy and add more discs


Great change logs. Someone from Lite-On must be writing these. :roll:
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Postby RJW on Thu Jun 29, 2006 10:40 am

No I think some old Benq employee is writing them but ussing more lIte on style in case of lite on it should have been:


"Match more media" :lol:
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Postby dolphinius_rex on Thu Jun 29, 2006 11:30 am

considering the writing quality of that new DW1640 firmware (based on a scan I saw), I'd say LiteON is probably doing the tweaking now. Either that or BenQ is being forced to test burn quality on LiteON drives with K-Probe now. :o
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Postby Ian on Thu Jun 29, 2006 12:07 pm

That bad huh?
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Postby dolphinius_rex on Thu Jun 29, 2006 12:20 pm

Ian wrote:That bad huh?


Well, I've only seen one scan of TY media.... but it was pretty bad.
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Postby [buck] on Thu Jun 29, 2006 1:40 pm

dolphinius_rex wrote:
Ian wrote:That bad huh?


Well, I've only seen one scan of TY media.... but it was pretty bad.

Brace yourselves...

http://club.cdfreaks.com/showpost.php?p ... stcount=15

General concensus at CDF seems to be that it's a crappy firmware and that BSLB is still best, and I'm inclined to agree.
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Postby Dartman on Thu Jun 29, 2006 11:34 pm

Well the last firmware actually did make my dl writing to Verbatims better, didn't help with the Memorex crap.
Now when are they going to screw ove...I mean update the 1655.
I was hoping the monkeys at liteOn weren't totally in charge of updating BenQ drives now, we'll see :roll:
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Re: New BenQ DW1670 And DW1640 Firmware

Postby Bhairav on Fri Jun 30, 2006 1:44 am

Ian wrote:Like the subject says...

DW1640 BSPB - http://support.benq.com/files/storage/F ... 0/BSRB.zip

Update the wriitng strategy


DW1670 1.02 - http://support.benq.com/files/storage/F ... 70-102.zip

Update the writing strategy and add more discs


Great change logs. Someone from Lite-On must be writing these. :roll:


Typo, Ian. That should be BSRB, not BSPB.
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Postby dodecahedron on Fri Jun 30, 2006 4:00 am

fixed.
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